Rigveda Samhita — Mandala 1 — Chapter 88

RV 1 88.1

आ विद्युन्मद्भिर् मरुतः स्वर्कै रथेभिर् यात ऋष्टिमद्भिर् अश्वपर्णैः । आ वर्षिष्ठया न इषा वयो न पप्तता सुमायाः

ā vidyunmadbhir marutaḥ svarkai rathebhir yāta ṛṣṭimadbhir aśvaparṇaiḥ | ā varṣiṣṭhayā na iṣā vayo na paptatā sumāyāḥ

Come, O Maruts, with your lightning-bearing chariots, well-chanting, spear-bearing, horse-winged; fly here to us with most abundant refreshment, like birds, you of good devices.

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RV 1 88.2

ते ऽरुणेभिर् वरम् आ पिशङ्गैः शुभे कꣳ यान्ति रथतूर्भिर् अश्वैः । रुक्मो न चित्रः स्वधितीवान् पव्या रथस्य जङ्घनन्त भूम

te 'ruṇebhir varam ā piśaṅgaiḥ śubhe kaṁ yānti rathatūrbhir aśvaiḥ | rukmo na citraḥ svadhitīvān pavyā rathasya jaṅghananta bhūma

They travel at will with ruddy, tawny horses that hasten the chariot, for splendour's sake. Bright like gold, axe-bearing, with the rim of the chariot they trample the ground.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

RV 1 88.3

श्रिये कꣳ वो अधि तनूषु वाशीर् मेधा वना न कृणवन्त ऊर्ध्वा । युष्मभ्यꣳ कम् मरुतः सुजातास् तुविद्युम्नासो धनयन्ते अद्रिम्

śriye kaṁ vo adhi tanūṣu vāśīr medhā vanā na kṛṇavanta ūrdhvā | yuṣmabhyaṁ kam marutaḥ sujātās tuvidyumnāso dhanayante adrim

For beauty's sake the blades upon your bodies — ... they raise them up erect like trees; for you, O well-born Maruts of great brilliance, they set the pressing-stone running.

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RV 1 88.4

अहानि गृध्राः पर्य् आ व आगुर् इमाꣳ धियꣳ वार्कार्याꣳ च देवीम् । ब्रह्म कृण्वन्तो गोतमासो अर्कैर् ऊर्ध्वꣳ नुनुद्र उत्सधिम् पिबध्यै

ahāni gṛdhrāḥ pary ā va āgur imāṁ dhiyaṁ vārkāryāṁ ca devīm | brahma kṛṇvanto gotamāso arkair ūrdhvaṁ nunudra utsadhim pibadhyai

Like vultures, the days have come round to you, (to) this thought and to the divine Vārkāryā (song); making their prayer, the Gotamas with their chants have pushed the well's cover upward, to drink.

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RV 1 88.5

एतत् त्यन् न योजनम् अचेति सस्वर् ह यन् मरुतो गोतमो वः । पश्यन् हिरण्यचक्रान् अयोदꣳष्ट्रान् विधावतो वराहून्

etat tyan na yojanam aceti sasvar ha yan maruto gotamo vaḥ | paśyan hiraṇyacakrān ayodaṁṣṭrān vidhāvato varāhūn

That famed journey (of yours) has been perceived, as it were — that which Gotama (made) for you in secret, O Maruts — seeing your gold-wheeled, iron-tusked, rushing boar-like ones.

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RV 1 88.6

एषा स्या वो मरुतो ऽनुभर्त्री प्रति ष्टोभति वाघतो न वाणी । अस्तोभयद् वृथासाम् अनु स्वधाꣳ गभस्त्योः

eṣā syā vo maruto 'nubhartrī prati ṣṭobhati vāghato na vāṇī | astobhayad vṛthāsām anu svadhāṁ gabhastyoḥ

This song of yours, O Maruts, upholding (you), answers back like the voice of a priest; it has made (praise) freely resound, following their own nature, in the two hands.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain